European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 13, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday january 13, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 9 at the soul Garl  Airport in Germany Cunt Robin Welling of Stem ore., checks a he Fol role in the cockpit of c-141 Star Lufler transport Pline with certain Sentinel troops arrive in Stuttgart Cope Iol jct Hanun or san Diego. We lond one or the Tew women c-141 pilots in the air Force is participating in reformer 86, a Cretin san Tzirel. At right soldiers of inc 32nd separate inf brigade Meeh Wisconsin army National guard Are lined up in front of a c-141 Al he Stuttgart Airport after flying in from the is. They Are part of 3,500 Wisconsin National guard reformer troops taking part in car Tain Sentinel Al the Garc Woehr military training area. Reformer proceeds through Snow ice by Joe Mapother Bremerhaven Bureau Sheinberg Germany refer Ger spokesmen in Northern Germany and the Netherlands sunday reported no Man Euver related traffic accidents despite Snow and icy Road conditions that plagued vide areas of Northern Europe during the weekend. More than 500 traffic accidents were reported in one four hour stretch Friday evening in inc German slate of . There were no reported accidents among he More than 1,100 vehicles in route from re forger marshalling Arras according 10 military spokesmen in a Heinberg Germany and Ommen Holland sunday morning. The vehicles will be participating in the certain Sentinel 86" Field train ing exercises scheduled for the latter half of january in Southern Germany. Both spokesmen said military vehicle traffic had been slowed by weather conditions. We have had some ice patches and some reduced visibility said army Cape. Lawrence Baca Provost marshal for the Rhein erg military Community. He said there were two minor weekend traffic accidents involving personnel and vehicles not connected with the Maneu vers. Three marshalling areas and five pre positioned equip ment sties Are in use fur the Winter exercises in the North Ern Arm group Region North a. Two marshalling areas at Rhc Inberg and Tribeck Are located in the state of Nord Rhein restful in just South of nicer Sakrisen. A third marshalling area is located in Holland near Ommen parallel with nicer san san to the cast. Weekend Rains washed away the Snow cover in the Sheinberg area said Baca. At Ommen Snow remained in the ground but Road conditions were Good said army sgt. Walt Sokalski a spokesman for the marshalling area control group. Showered with varying amounts of Snow and rain sup port activities for the an Auvil Winter exercises continued through the weekend. The 18th reformer return of forces to Germany will wind Down its first phase this week As 10,000 Active duty and Reserve component soldiers move into a Man Euver area bordered by the cities of Schwa unfurl re Ginsburg and Dinkels Buehri. At 7th army support come Headquarters in Ahcin Berg and the arse cock marshalling area exercise participants outlined some of the complexity of the mobilization. Army Reserve Dpi. Michael Maser had five ambulance teams ready to go As he waited As acting commander for the main body of the 13-Lth medical co am m arrive from its National guard  in Washington Iowa. Of the 80 soldiers on hand Only 20 arc regularly As signed to the medical company Mosca said. Trie remain ing 60 were drawn from other Reserve units in Eastern Iowa As pan of the key personnel upgrade program pupae said. The program is designed to provide training with Active duty soldiers in the specially area of inc reservist he said. The Advance contingent Drew equipment from a . Army combat equipment group Europe site in Holland. When lilt main body arrives the fio Pup Soldier will separate from the company and be scattered among i Nils in Southern Germany Moser will leave the company for Vii corps Headquarters where he will keep tubs tin the 60 men receiving the specially training that Moser said was difficult la provide in Hie National guard. Up up May be a personnel clerk s Nightmare but us the Reserve Captain said if we were to go to War Tomor Row we would probably nil be  army Reserve Sec. William Fol Drumn. Tomicello Iowa is one of the Pup soldiers he said his goals Are to see his Active duly contemporaries in a Linn take ideas Back to his company and prove to myself and my superiors that i m  at the Rasbeck marshalling area . Col. Jimmie Rawls was Riding Herd Over u Smull contingent of Soldier teachers who left their Normal duly at inc noncommissioned officers and electronics schools in bad tool Ger Many to form the marshalling area Headquarters unit to Greet 2nd in 67lh air defense arty brigade soldiers on their Way South. They Are pan of the More Hun 10.000 Isi inf div soldiers Here fur the nerds is from fort Riley. Kansas. The 7th army training come soldiers do not normally work in a support role said Rawls. In a situation like this they have to use  Sec. Charles Elkins. Coic for he dad Toel group minced few words in describing his new Job. We run the show. We Tell them where to go and what to do. Thai s basically in gel them in and get  study outlines plan for improving Reserve readiness Washington Kupij the Readi Ness of the nation s Reserve and National guard forces could improve with a few changes in the Way the Pentagon sends gear 0 the units backing up regular troops a congressional study suggests. A just completed study of the Reserve Reading program by the general account. Tomee. Congress investigative Arm Iasi Iowa Nativ to the go a now works could provide distinct improvements in readiness our examination of the two Al indicated that More units could immedi ate Rease their Overall readiness and at i would Cost less to accomplish this than by using inc existing method. In addition the report added equip Ping units in the existing Way did not always ensure that the earlier deploying units were the first to be  the Basic policy for equipping guard and Reserve units now is entered on the first to fight first to be equipped theory. Other factors included deployment target operational plan requirements the degree of Mission importance and the relationship of the unit to the Force Structure. Al the moment about half the army combat and 70 percent of the Active support and service units have Reserve backups. But equipment shortages limit their readiness and More than 90 percent of the backup units were recently classified 01 Nei combat ready under a scenario for a european War because of equipment shortages. One of the two modifications the Gao developed and suggested involves sending the new equipment coming on line first to the units whose readiness would improve inc most by the addition of the new gear typically those with Low readiness ratings at the time. The other involved determining what units can measure the largest readiness in crease with the least expenditure of Money for Aew equipment which also largely concentrates on those units with Low Readi Ness ratings Al the time. The Gao concentrated its study Only on army units and did not examine the re serve components of the other services. Al though in did not directly ask the army to comment on its findings for its published report the Gao said it discussed the mat Ter informally with army officials. The study took note of army efforts to accelerate efforts to equip Reserve components to enable them to train and if Nec Essary fight with gear comparable id that used by Active duty units. In the next six years the army plans 10 spend More than 51 billion for new gear for Reserve components but in still projects equipment Shear pages. The Gao study warned Jaal there Are some potential problems involved in changing Over to either of its alternatives